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From Story to Movement: A Master Class with Patrice O'Neill
This week, the Center for Social Media and AU had the honor of hosting Patrice O'Neill as the final visiting filmmaker for the 12th Annual Human Rights Film Series. Read more...
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Reel Aging: Reel Change
The Center has an exciting opportunity to share with media makers addressing aging and elder rights:THE $500 APPLICATION FEE HAS BEEN WAIVED!Read more...
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Free Speech at Full Frame
Documentary has always been an exercise in freedom of expression. This year's Full Frame Documentary Festival put the spotlight on free speech and the filmmakers who are taking risks to showcase our...
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Land of Opportunity Demo
One of the great projects being showcased through the Living Docs intiative to foster a community of web-native documentary development is Luisa Dantas's Land of Opportuntiy. Grown out of the...
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Sparkwise: A New and Innovative Tool for Measuring Media Impact
Tomorrow Partners, a Berkeley based strategic design firm, recently launched a free cloud-based online tool for aggregating all sorts of metrics, including social media and web presence in a...
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Filmmaker Nefin Dinc on "The Other Town"
When Turkish filmmaker Nefin Dinc was a graduate student in Great Britain, she noticed that while her Greek friends and Turkish friends "liked each other a lot," they also repeated similar ideas about...
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Water Under the Bridge: Keeping Stories Afloat Across the Transmedia Ocean
Co-Authored by Andrea Olson and Laine Kaplan-LevensonHow do we tell stories? We tell them on porches, around fires, over drinks, on the phone, via text (or as ‘dem kids call it, ‘sext’), and now on the...
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Don’t Push It: Integrating Interactivity with Intention… and Discretion
Co-Authored by Sofie Strasser & Laine Kaplan-LevensonIt’s another week thinking about interactivity here at Land of Opportunity, especially after receiving the great news that we will be...
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Living, Breathing, Transmedia: Navigating the Non-linear
By Josh FreundTraditionally when making a documentary, filmmakers present a film that reflects only a sliver of their amassed content. We shoot and shoot and shoot some more, then edit and cut the vast...
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The Saga from Katrina to Isaac: Stories from New Orleans
By Laine Kaplan-LevensonLittle did we know here at Land of Opportunity that mentioning Cowbird in a blog post a few weeks ago would lead to a beautiful storytelling collaboration. Our latest experience...
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Processing our Process: Documentation and Reporting in the Age of Transmedia
By Andrea OlsonIn an age of online over-sharing (we know what what most of our “friends” are watching, listening to and “liking”), Land of Opportunity has been grappling with how to achieve a major...
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Land of Opportunity is a Living Doc
Filmmakers like Luisa Dantas are paving the way for more people to understand and experiment with web-native documentary production. What does this really mean, and what can we learn from them so we...
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Celebrating Ambulante
If you want to show docs to people who never watch them, try holding your events outdoors. That’s one of the tips that Elena Fortes, programmer of the renowned Ambulante traveling film festival in...
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New Frontier at Sundance: Innovating Story
Each year at the Sundance Film Festival I try to answer a question: why should filmmakers pay attention to the experimental media showcased at the New Frontier exhibition? Read more...
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Robert West: Pioneer in Social Documentary
Robert West, the co-founder with Judith Helfand of Working Films, who died June 6 of brain cancer, was a pioneer of activist engagement strategies. He never was content with goals of information and...
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Reel Aging: Reel Change
The Center has an exciting opportunity to share with media makers addressing aging and elder rights:THE $500 APPLICATION FEE HAS BEEN WAIVED!Read more...
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Free Speech at Full Frame
Documentary has always been an exercise in freedom of expression. This year's Full Frame Documentary Festival put the spotlight on free speech and the filmmakers who are taking risks to showcase our...
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Land of Opportunity Demo
One of the great projects being showcased through the Living Docs intiative to foster a community of web-native documentary development is Luisa Dantas's Land of Opportuntiy. Grown out of the...
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